His best known role wwhen as Agatha Christie's master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film "Murder On The Orient Express." Finney was therefore effectual in the role that he complained that it typecast him for the total of years. "People really do think I am 300 pounds [136 kg] with a French accent" he said.

He was innate inside Salford, Greater Manchester, England.

His number one film was The Entertainer (1960), but his rattling breakthrough come by owning his portrayal of the enlightened factory worker in Karel Reisz's film of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. This led to the series of "angry young man" roles within kitchen sink dramas, most notably 1963's Tom Jones (for which he turned down the role of T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia). Albert Finney has typically been known as "A second Olivier".

His television roles include the lead within Dennis Potter's final two plays: Karaoke and Cold Lazarus. In the latter he played the frozen, bodiless head. His virtually all recent TV credit is the leading role in Our Uncle Silas, all about the Cornish country gentleman, who's seeking when his grand-great-nephew. It ran from either 2000 until 2002, then agaaround for the mini-series in 2003.

From either 1970 to 1978, he was married to the French actress Anouk Aimée.

Finney's award come many. He's been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar four times, for "Tom Jones", "Murder On The Orient Express", "The Dresser", & "Under the Volcano". He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "Erin Brockovich". He won a Silver Berlin Bear award for Better Actor for "The Dresser" at a 1984 Berlin International Film Festival. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance in "The Image" and won an Emmy for his performance when Winston Churchill in the HBO movie, "The Gathering Storm". He's been nominated for deuce Tony Awards for his performance in the play's, "Luther" and "Joe Egg". He's received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in "Big Fish", "Erin Brockovich", "Under the Volcano", "The Dresser", "Shoot the Moon", "Tom Jones" & has won a Golden Earth for "The Gathering Storm", "Scrooge", & for "Tom Jones" when Virtually all Promising Newcomer - Male. He was honored per Los Angeles Film Critics Association as Best Actor for "Under the Volcano" (which he attached with F. Murray Abraham for Amadeus), the National Board of Review for Best Actor in "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", and the New York Film Critics Circle for Best Actor in "Tom Jones". He won a Volpi Ventral suction cup for Better Actor for "Tom Jones" at a Venice Film Festival. He has as well received trine nominations from either a Screen Actors Guild Awards, existence nominated for his performance in "The Gathering Storm" & winning for his performances inside "Erin Brockovich" & as a member of the acting ensemble in the moving-picture show "Traffic".

Selected Filmography
Corpse Bride (2005) (voice) ''Ocean's Twelve (2004) (uncredited) Big Fish (2003) Traffic (2000) Erin Brockovich (2000) The Browning Version (1994) Miller's Crossing (1990) Under the Volcano (1984) The Dresser (1983) Annie (1982) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Gumshoe (1972) Scrooge (1970) Two for the Road (1967) Tom Jones (1963) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' (1960)